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Monique, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Mount Monique (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Mountain
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
rising to c. 600m on N coast of Charcot Island (q.v.), was roughly mapped by FAE, 1908-10, on 11 January 1910 and, in association with Marion Nunataks (q.v.) and Mount Martine (q.v.), named Sommet Monique after Monique Charcot (b.1907), second daughter of Dr J.-B. Charcot, Commander of FAE (Charcot, 1912, Pl.1; BA, 1916, photograph facing p.409). Monique Mount (BA chart 3175, 9.x.1914). Fj. Monique (HA chart, 1927). Monique Peak (Wilkins, 1929, map facing p.374). Moniquefjellet (Aagaard, 1930, end map). Mount Monique (BA, 1930, p.88; Searle, 1963, end map; [in 69°55'S 75°13'W] APC, 1955, p.15; [co-ordinates corrected from USLANDSAT imagery of February 1975] APC, 1977, p.23). Monique Mountain (BA chart 3175, 1.iii.1940). Monigue [sic] Mountain (USAAF chart [LR-74], 1942). Mount Monique, Mount Marion (Marion Nunataks, q.v.), both referring to this feature (USHO, 1943, upper view p.170). Monte Monique (Argentina. IGM map, 1946; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.203). Pico Mónica (Chile. DNH chart LIII, 1947). The feature was photographed from the air on USN Operation "Highjump" in 1947. Pico Monique (Argentina. MM chart 110, 1949). Monte Mónica (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.308a). The feature was mapped by FIDS in 1959 from USN air photographs. Gora Monik (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961).
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